Missy Bear 
Seasons III to V:
The Bear returns...

[Goodbye and Hello] It was getting time for Tony and Lynn to depart. We had originally planned to sail to Skiathos, from where they would...

True confessions time: Until last year, I’d never heard of Evia. I knew there was a large island off the east coast of the Greek...

A low pressure was tracking eastwards along the Mediterranean, south of Crete. The curling, gradient air-flow of the depression was, of...

Those of you who follow our blog will remember that 2023 wasn’t a great sailing year for us. We didn’t make it out to Missy Bear at all...

We had to put the heating on last night. It was about 22:00 and we were inspecting the back of our eyelids, waiting to head to the...

We got our first glimpse of the whiteness of the building perched impossibly, like an eerie, into the precipitous cliff face above us....

In the same way that seeing kite-surfers in your intended anchorage can be disconcerting, seeing a kayaking school practising through...

Spring is sprung… …the grass is ris’ I wonder where de birdies is? The bird is on the wing! But how absurd, I t’ought the wing was on de...

The wind was due to blow hard from the south, and Missy Bear was sailing northwards up the Evvia channel – between mainland Attica and...

When you are heading towards, what you hope will be, a sheltered anchorage, its always slightly disconcerting to see a kite surfer...

The forecast was favourable, the boat was ready, and Tony and I were set to do our 150NM delivery trip from Leros to Olympic Marina (it’s...

Sleeping on the chair of an airline departures lounge is never easy or comfortable. Despite being very tired, I think I managed just half...

Gabriella is from Puglia, you know, the pointy-heel bit of Italy. There are quite a few Italians aound Leros; it was built by Italians...

No, we’ve not discovered a wine made from oranges. I think that Alix and I first drank “orange wine” in ‘Sam & Jaks’ one Friday night in...

When you have travelled around Laos for a while, one thing you notice is that there is always an ATM at the entrance to a hospital. Now I...

A lot of thoughts pass quickly through one’s mind in an acute crisis, especially an emergency occurring in a foreign, third-world land,...